Ford targets Georgia Tech, Clark Atlanta to Fill Technical Positions

[residinghere2007]

Originally Posted by belleislerunner

I would argue that Ford is probably recruiting at Clark and other HBU's because graduates of those colleges aren't as put off by living in Detroit as a graduate of Pepperdine University in Santa Monica might be. GA Tech and Purdue have always been hotbeds for Big Three recruitment. Atlanta and Detroit are actually pretty comparable cities - cores of 500-700K people, metros of 5+ million people, massive airports, segregated suburbs, extreme wealth and extreme proverty etc. As far as I see it, the only trade offs are Detroit has waterfront and Atlanta has sun.

Many of you may not want to admit it, but this is true. I've lived in Detroit and on the whole it is not that much different than Atlanta except it has the waterfront, and of course isn't in the financial mess that Detroit is in.

Ford also is probably doing recruitment at CAU in order to get a more diverse pool of candidates. They do have a business department there and even though some on this board have a bias against CAU, I don't understand why you would think that Ford wouldn't want to do recruitment there it is an accredited university and an HBCU so Ford would have access to diverse graduates. Also like the PP mentioned, many of them would more than likely be willing to move to the Detroit area versus others who have their own opinion about Detroit based on the city's financial woes. There are a lot of great suburbs in the SE Michigan area and the downtown area of Detroit was already making a comeback before the bankruptcy filing situation.

[gerrythesnake]

This is the Atlanta forum. We do not care about Detoilet on here. If you think that city is so great im sure they will have 1000s of people lined up ready to move there.

[residinghere2007]

Originally Posted by gerrythesnake

This is the Atlanta forum. We do not care about Detoilet on here. If you think that city is so great im sure they will have 1000s of people lined up ready to move there.

I live in Atlanta proper so I know where I am. I don't think that either Detroit or Atlanta are all that great but I do feel Atlanta has the edge over Detroit, but both share similarities such as those than the PP mentioned.

Too bad you don't care about other cities. Someone posted this thread about Ford recruiting here in Atlanta and Ford is in metro Detroit, so if you have a problem with people speaking of the city that many recruited GT and CAU grads may relocate to, you should take it up with the OP.

[MrWJr]

Ford has been a good supporter of HBCU's. At one point they did the HBCU Business Classic scholarship program, so I'd like to think they are familiar with CAU.

[kferq]

Overall, I think people underestimate the positive impact of Morehouse, Spellman and CAU on the city beyond the African American community. Many people don't know that CAU has PhD programs in Biology and Chemistry and small, but very good, masters level programs in engineering, applied math, and computer science. Given the overall strength of the Atlanta scientific community, they are able to recruit a good faculty and have a large enough overall research (external and internal) funding base (~17 million in 2010) to make an impact.